The term apple.com uses is "spinning cursor" or "spinning disc cursor" and occurs when an app is waiting for some resource. Bob At 2:48 PM -0700 12/13/06, Ronald Woodland wrote: >FYI, the rainbow wheel you refer to is technically known as the >"beach ball of death." > > >On 12/13/06 11:24 AM, "Ettenberg Frank" <frank.ettenberg at chello.at> wrote: > >>Dear List, I have noticed that Photoshop CS2 & the Mail program >>occasionally have attacks of the mysteriously long-turning >>rainbow wheel - when I just start using these programs on my 1.67 G4 >>aluminum PB. I have 1.5 gig ram installed-so why should there be >>this slowdown? Would using Disk Warrior for Tiger help or not? I >>have a feeling that the problems with the above apps is a separate >>issue. In any event I'd appreciate your opinions on the validity of >>using DW at all...& what I might do - if anything - to remedy these >>chronic software problems. > >Excellent question. I'm going to use it tonight when I speak to the >DiskWarrior Product Manager. I'll let you know what he says. >-- >Shawn King >Host/Executive Producer >Your Mac Life >http://www.yourmaclife.com > > >_______________________________________________ >Titanium mailing list >Titanium at listserver.themacintoshguy.com >http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/mailman/listinfo/titanium > >Listmom is trying to clean out his closets! Vintage Mac and random stuff: > http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZmacguy1984 > > >_______________________________________________ >Titanium mailing list >Titanium at listserver.themacintoshguy.com >http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/mailman/listinfo/titanium > >Listmom is trying to clean out his closets! Vintage Mac and random stuff: > http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZmacguy1984